Frans de Waal Ph D Charles Howard Candler

Frans de Waal, Ph. D Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior Emory University Department of Psychology Director, Living Links Center Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Education • Dutch Universities of Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Groningen and Utrecht • Trained as a zoologist and ethologist with Professor Jan van Hooff • In 1977 received doctorate in biology from Utrecht • Dissertation research concerned aggressive behavior and alliance formation in macaques

Frans de Waal • Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior • Director, Living Links Center • Research centers on primate social behavior – Conflict resolution – Cooperation – Inequity aversion – Food-sharing • Member – US National Academy of Sciences – Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences

Arnhem Zoo

“We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach. ” Age of Empathy

"To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us. ”

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with these poor, underestimated creatures” "